...at the Valley River Center today.
Friday, December 30, 2011
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Jazz Vespers in Portland!
Seen in Portland last week-end!
(p.s. - saw Brad Pitt's MONEYBALL movie tonight. GREAT Baseball movie!)
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Merry Christmas from illustrationISM
The illustrator of this digi-card begs most respectfully to present
to you the compliments of the season, and hopes that the important
duties which have devolved upon him have been so discharged
as to be favorably remembered by you at this joyous and festive holiday. (whew)
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Mikaela @ 6 years old!
In honor of Mikaela's (and ours) great week-end,
Arlene Schinitzer Concert Hall in Portland,
PLUS great friends, thick Xmas shopping traffic...)
I thought i'd dig up an old sketch of her!
ember heads
no, i'm not going crazy, but i drew these face 'like' heads that i saw in our blazing fire-place!(maybe it's because Mik, Dan & i saw
ALL of The LORD of the RINGS
movies lately!)
(5 DAYS 'TIL GRAND-PARENTS CHRISTMAS!)
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Top Ten Albums of 2011
Here are my
TOP TEN ALBUMS
for 2011:
1) - The Waterboys - An Appointment With Mr. Yeats.
Why? It's such a layered, traversed album that goes
through the phrases/phases of W.B. Yeats;
with the background rock symphony of
Mike Scott and The Waterboys.
"The hammering angst dancing with the mist of soul." (my line!)
2) - Spiderman - Turn Off The Dark.
Through all the chaos in NYC getting the musical started,
this album was a great outcrop of Bono, Edge and all the people
that got beaten up for it, singing 'RISE ABOVE'!
PLUS + It's a great road-trip cd on a great rental car stereo!
3) - Bruce Cockburn - Small Source of Comfort.
If 'HE' makes an album within any year, you
have to listen, hear, gestate and love it.
4) - Proto Kaw - Forth.
After all that Kerry Livgren went through,
he can still make a pristine, sharp, anthemic product.
5) - Ben Harper - White Lies For Dark Times.
6) - U2 - Achtung Baby Super Deluxe package;
(especially the 'Kindergarten demos' and the
FROM THE SKY DOWN video);
PLUS + Q Magazine's 'Ahk-toong-Bay-bi' Covered CD.
7) - Sam Phillips - Solid State.
8) - Brad Mehldau - Live in Marciac.
(2-CD & DVD gig!); A REALLY nice set!
The best head-phones in the dark album.
9) - The Jelly Jam - Shall We Descend?!
10) - (yes...another) The Waterboys - In A Special Place;
Mike Scott (playing great on the) Piano
Demos for This Is The Sea; i would also love
to see his 'black book' with all his thots, lyrics and notes,
during this phase!
(did you see last years list?)
THANX, for many of these, to
SKIP'S RECORD & CD WORLD, here in Eugene!
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Borrah Minevitch and his Harmonica Rascals
THIS IS FUN TO WATCH!
X-D Take the time 2C it! X-D
Spike Jones wasn't the only purveyor of crazy novelty music in the first half of the 20th century.
Russian-born Borrah Minevitch led a zany combo that were very popular from the late 1920s to Minevitchs' untimely death in the '50s.
Space Age Pop sez, "the novelty of a whole harmonica band, using the full range from huge bass to tiny alto harmonica, made a terrific impression. Within a year, Minevitch and his Harmonica Rascals were one of the hottest acts on the vaudeville circuit."
They even featured a midget, Johnny Puleo, who was featured prominently in their on-stage shenanigans, as videos of the group on YouTube attest.
THANX from: http://musicformaniacs.blogspot.com/2011/06/borrah-minevitch-his-harmonica-rascals.html
an illustration from the past...
'POWER VACS & HANGERS'
"The 'two sides' always clashing and spatting @
each other for dominance of
the souls and lives of "women/children/embryos & viable tissue".
[ it's ironic & puzzling why it's called the 'LOVEJOY' Surgicenter?! ]
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